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Disenfranchised social isolation in protracted displacement: Lessons from Georgia based on emotion analysis of social media data

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  • Kilaberia, Tina R.
  • Akbary, Hamid
  • Beckman, Sarah
  • Brooks, Mohamad Adam

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Social isolation has been studied in terms of linear, continuous life course and individual factors. War-related displacements present structural and cumulative disadvantages the impact of which on social isolation is not well known. This study examined the role of structural factors in the social isolation of an understudied group of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) living in war-related protracted displacement for over thirty years in the Republic of Georgia. An innovative human-coded emotion analysis of randomly drawn and translated 506 Facebook comments resulted in 107 emotions, grouped into three domains reflecting (inter)group, legal status-related, and economic exclusions as structural factors. The three domains each subsumed subdomains as variations of the central focus. The study encapsulates these findings as ‘disenfranchised social isolation’ in the context of war-related protracted displacement as a structural vulnerability. The findings are reflected in terms of social-ecological determinants such as a social place, discrimination experiences, and institutional power. In light of migration and displacement globally, social gerontologists must account for the impact of protracted displacement as a structural vulnerability experienced over the life course.

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  • Kilaberia, Tina R. & Akbary, Hamid & Beckman, Sarah & Brooks, Mohamad Adam, 2025. "Disenfranchised social isolation in protracted displacement: Lessons from Georgia based on emotion analysis of social media data," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 385(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:385:y:2025:i:c:s0277953625008949
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118563
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